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THE GOLD BRICK RACKET.
a Gainesville Man is Tried but BE Proves
Too Sharp for the sharpers.

a Gainesville Man is Tried but BE Proves
Too Sharp for the sharpers.
Special to the Gazette.
SHERMAN, Tex, May 14.-One of the
most daring attempts at swindling and
robbery ever perpetrated in this city &C.
CURED this afternoon. The facts are
about as follows: A man by the name
of Ltttleton arrived in Gainesville yester-
day afternoon, stating that he had been
to De Leon in search of a partner,
in the mining business in Colorado,
whose name was Williams, but on
arriving at Denton found that he was
dead, and was told that he mad brother
living in Gainesville by the name of
Watt Williams. He hunted up Mr.W. 81.
Williams, well-known cattleman, and
pretended that he thought he was q
brother of his partner, and then con-
fded to him the secret of his mission.
He told him that he had found
an Indian in Colorado who knew the
whereabouts of a rich god mine; that
the Indians name was Ora; that he had
in his possession several gold bricks
weighing thirty pounds; that he had been
captured and held by the United States
officers, but that he, Littleton, had Sc
cured the influence of several prominent
officers and had succeeded in having
the Indian released, and had
brought him to Sherman where he was
camped in the suburbs of the city with
the gold bricks in his possession. Little
ton told Mr.. Watt Williams that if he
would come with him to Sherman he
would show him the gold bricks and give
him an interest in the mine if he would
furnish the means to work it. Mr.. Watt
Williams had recently sold his
residence in Gainesville for $4,000, and
it is generally known that he has money
which he can command. After hearing
LittletoR's story he consented to come
with him to Sherman, and they arrived in
the city together this afternoon and stated
out to the suburbs to see the Indian in
his camp. After going about three-quar-
ters of a mile out of the city, Mr.. Will
Jams became uneasy and told Little
ton that he was a stranger to him
and that he valued his own life
more than everything else and would not
go any further. They then returned to
the city. Littleton procured a vehicle
and said he would go after the'Indian
and the gold bricks. After while he re-
turned without the Indian, but brought
one of the bricks with him, which ap-
peared to be of gold and weighed about
thirty pounds. Mr.. Williams went with
him to a room in the third story in
the Beiler hotel, where, with q
brace and bit, they bored out some
shavings to take to the jewelers. to test.
Llttleton put the chips of gold in brown
paper, and when getting up off the floor
evidently changed them by slight of hand
for lot made of pure gold, and said that
he would take the brick back to the In
dian, who was quite uneasy about tits
safety, and told Mr.. Williams to remain
in the room until he returned. AS soon as
Littleton was out of sight, Mr.. Williams
picked up lot of the bogus gold chips
and went Immediately with the pure gold
chips in the paper to Joseph Linz's jew
elry store to test them. Two men stop
ping 81 the Berlin hotel by the names of
Scott and Wells, hailing from Kansas
City, entered the ieWelry store Just after
Mr.. Williams, and asked him what he
was doing, and then turned and went out.
Littleton has not been heard of since.
The officers are trsing to get clew to his
whereabouts. %